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Locator map of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty within England: Date: 15 April 2012: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData: Great Britain coastline and border data; Natural England. AONB boundary; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. All data outside of Great Britain; Author: Nilfanion, using Ordnance Survey and Natural ...
In October 2017 the North Pennines Observatory was opened at the village's Old School House. The Highforest Show is held on the first Saturday of September each year. The show is a community event, organised by a local committee, and allows the village to showcase its various talents.
The fellside forms part of the North Pennines Area of Natural Beauty which in 2003 was awarded the status of UNESCO European Geopark and includes the Moorhouse Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve. The parish includes the outlying hamlets of Gullom Holme and Milburn Grange , respectively 0.5 miles (0.8 km) and 1.25 miles (2.0 km) from Milburn ...
The North Pennines are one of the snowiest parts of England and Copley Village sees snow falling on average 53 days each year. It is just east of the North Pennines AONB, [5] home to one of only a handful of outdoor ski centres in England. [6] Copley has a village hall which is part of the Teesdale Village Halls' Consortium. [7]
Mickle Fell is a mountain in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England.It has a maximum elevation of 788 m (2,585 ft). [1] It lies slightly off the main watershed of the Pennines, about 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of Cross Fell.
Teesdale is a dale, or valley, located principally in County Durham, North East England. It is one of the Durham Dales, which are themselves part of the North Pennines, the northernmost part of the Pennine uplands. The dale is named after its principal river, the Tees, which has its source below Cross Fell (890 m (2,930 ft)) in Cumbria. [1]
The first documented evidence of mining in the Northern Pennines dates from the 12th century [4] and records the presence of silver mines in the areas of what are now Alston Moor, just west of Weardale, and Northumberland. Weardale was at that time forested and belonged to the Bishops of Durham, who used part of it as a hunting preserve.
The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England. It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east, straddling the borders of the counties of Cumbria , Durham , Northumberland and North Yorkshire .